Eduardo Matos-Martin

Eduardo Matos-Martín

Clinical Assistant Professor

Biography

Eduardo Matos-Martín is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Liberal Studies, where he teaches Arts and Cultures in the Core Program. He obtained his doctoral degree in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His scholarship mainly focuses on contemporary Spanish and Latin American literatures and cinema, and he also has a strong research interest in political theory, biopolitics, cultural history and the culture of memory.

Education

Ph.D. – University of Michigan

Teaching and Research Interests

Spanish peninsular and Latin American Literatures, Film, and Cultures; Modern and Contemporary European Culture; Political theory and Biopolitics; Cultural Studies; Cinema; Comparative Study of Fascism and Dictatorship

Selected Honors and Awards

Books

Fuera de la ley: Asedios a fenómeno quinqui en la transición a la democracia. (eds.) Joaquín Florido Berrocal, Luis Martín-Cabrera, Eduardo Matos-Martín y Roberto Robles Valencia. Serie Constelaciones. Granada: Comares, 2015.

Journal articles and book chapters

“Narrating Spain’s Economic Crisis: Unemployment, Precarity and subjectivity in Pablo Gutiérrez’s Democracia.” Hispanic Research Journal 18:6 (2017): 520–537.

“Homo sacer y franquismo. Una lectura crítica de Los girasoles ciegos de Alberto Méndez.” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 40.1 (2015): 207–232.

“España y su razón eugenésica: El falangista vencido y desarmado de Andrés Sorel.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 92:3 (2015): 285–300.

“Entre la exclusión y la inclusión: la cultura quinqui de los 80 en Navajeros de Eloy de la Iglesia.” Fuera de la ley: Asedios a fenómeno quinqui en la transición a la democracia. Granada: Comares, 2015.

“Las paradojas de la memoria. Desviaciones, rupturas y discurso crítico en El vano ayer de Isaac Rosa.” Revista de Alces XXI. Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature & Film 1 (2014): 532–557.